Thursday, May 30th, 2013

Word 2010 and 2013 Tip – Quick Accented Characters

A Quick Guide of Shortcut Keyboard Combinations to Accent Marks over Characters

Word allows you to create accented letters quickly using its inbuilt accent shortcuts. To do this, press the accent shortcut key combination, then release, and follow it up with the letter to accent.

Some of the more commonly used shortcuts are:

Circumflex – Ctrl+Shift+^ (caret/6) followed by (a, e, i, o, u)

Grave – Ctrl+` (accent/grave) followed by (a, e, i, o, u)

Acute – Ctrl+’ (apostrophe/quotation mark) followed by (a, e, i, o, u, y)

Cedilla – Ctrl+, (comma/less than) followed by (c)

Umlaut – Ctrl+Shift+: (colon/semi colon) followed by (a, e, i, o, u, y)

Helen Bradley

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Word 2010 & 2013 Tip – What Format is THAT?!

Learn more about the formatting applied to text in your document with this handy Keyboard Shortcut

If you want to quickly find out what formatting has been applied to any piece of text, click in the text and press Shift + F1. A task pane will open in the right of Word window. This Reveal Formatting task pane displays details about the text format being used for the word that your insertion point is closest to.

With this task pane open you can click on any piece if text to learn more about its formatting.

Helen Bradley

Monday, May 13th, 2013

Word 2010 and 2013 Tip – Misssing Page Numbers

Finding and Fixing Page Numbers that Can’t be Seen and/or Won’t Print

If you have included page numbers at the foot of a page and find that they’re missing from your printouts the problem lies with your page settings. The footer text is being forced to print so far down the paper that your printer is ejecting the paper before this point is reached.

Solve the problem by selecting the Page Layout tab, click the Margins dropdown list, and click Custom Margins. Now, in this dialog select the Layout tab. Finally, increase the From edge: Footer measurement slightly. Experiment to find the smallest increase which will allow your page numbers to print.

 

Helen Bradley

Sunday, May 5th, 2013

Word 2010 and 2013 Tip – Back to Where You Were

Get to Your Previous Insertion Point with This Shortcut

When you move around a Word document it can be time consuming to find the place you were previously. Word records the last places you worked and you can return to them at any time by pressing Shift + F5. Press this combination four times and you’ll be back to your current position and along the way you’ll have visited three previous editing positions.

Helen Bradley

Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

Word 2010 and 2013 Tip – Quickly Move Paragraphs

 Move a Paragraph, at Any Time, with Ease!

To quickly move a whole paragraph up or down a Word document, click in the paragraph and press Shift + Alt + Up Arrow (or Down Arrow).

The same key combination will move an entire table row up or down a table and, when the top or bottom of the table is reached, it detaches the table row from the table to create another table which will continue moving through the page. This is a quicker and simpler way to split a table.

This tip works in just about any version of Word.

Helen Bradley

Wednesday, April 24th, 2013

Word 2010 and 2013 Tip – Creating a New Page… Instantly

How to make a New Page (or Page Break) When and Where you Want

To create a new page in a Word 2010 and 2013 document before you’ve reached the end of your current page, simply press CTRL + ENTER. This places a ‘…Page Break…’ in your document exactly where your insertion point was. It also moves the insertion point onto the top of the next page. You can see the page break marker if you select the ‘¶’ button on the Home tab of the Ribbon.

Lastly, if you need to, you can delete the page break by positioning the insertion point immediately in front of it and pressing Delete.

Helen Bradley

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

Word 2010 and 2013 Tip – Return Address Labels


 

Using Word to Create Multiple Return Address Labels

Create your own return address labels in Word 2010 or 2013 by selecting the Mailings tab and clicking the Labels button. Type your address into the text area under Address.

Alternately, select the ‘Use return address’ checkbox and select the address to use from your address book or from your Outlook contact list.

Select the ‘Full page of the same label’ option button and select Options to select your paper from the list.

Select New Document to create a document full of your labels or click Print to send the job straight to the printer.

Helen Bradley

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

Word 2010 and 2013 Tip – Drop Caps

Drawing Attention with a Drop Cap

One easy and fun way to add visual interest to a text heavy page is to use a Drop Cap. A Drop Cap is when the first letter of a paragraph is increased in size and, more often than not, put in a more ornate font.

To create a Drop Cap, place your insertion point in the paragraph you wish to start with a Drop Cap. Then, choose Insert on the Ribbon, click Drop Cap > Drop Cap Options. The ‘Drop Cap Options’ allows you to either insert the Drop Cap into the paragraph, with ‘Dropped’, or place it separate from the text, with ‘In margin’. If you’re unsure what to use, I would suggest ‘Dropped’ and increase the ‘Distance from text’ setting to .3cm and the ‘Lines to drop’ setting (which affects the Font size of the actual Drop Cap) to 5 and click OK.

To change the font of the Drop Cap, you can either select the font you want directly in the ‘Drop Cap Options’ window or highlight the letter (which appears in a Frame) afterwards and changing it. You could even use Format, Borders and Shading, Shading tab to fill the frame with colour.

Helen Bradley

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

Trevor’s Quick Word Tip – Quick Bold, Italics and Underline

When you want some text to stand out by being bolded you can press Ctrl + B and then type the text. To turn bolding off, press Ctrl + B again. This also works to bold already typed text – select the text and press Ctrl + B to bold it. The keyboard shortcut Ctrl + I can be used to italicize text and use Ctrl + U to underline it.

Helen Bradley

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

Trevor’s Quick Word Tip – Open, New Document

You can bypass the Open and New document dialogs in Word using shortcut keystrokes. To start a new blank document from inside the document you are working on now, press Ctrl + N. To open a document that already exists to reference or edit it press Ctrl + O and browse to locate and select the document to open and click Open.

Helen Bradley

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